Does air add weight to an inflated balloon?

Shome, Saurav and Raghuram, Vijeta (2025) Does air add weight to an inflated balloon? i wonder..., 13. pp. 13-17. ISSN 2582-1636

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Students are introduced to mass as a property of matter in the middlestage science curriculum. But many students believe that air is massless. Can we use an inflated balloon to offer visual evidence that air has mass?

Item Type:	Articles in APF Magazines
Authors:	Shome, Saurav and Raghuram, Vijeta
Document Language:	Language English
Subjects:	Social sciences Social sciences > Education Social sciences > Education > Science education
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > University Publications > i wonder...
Full Text Status:	Public
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URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/6330
Publisher URL:	https://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/

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